Uri Bruck's blog about language and translation

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Recently I attended the August Penguin – an annual half day event about Linux and open source. The Penguin, specifically a cute Penguin names Tux, is the logo of the Linux operating system. During the one of the breaks I ran into Amir Aharoni, a linguist and a software developer who works for Wikimedia, the …

"Darmok" is an episode of Star Trek – The Next Generation first broadcast in 1991. The exceptional thing about this episode is that the universal translator, the "magic" device they have that instantaneously translates between any two languages, doesn't work. Or rather it works more as we'd expect it to work, it translates words, but …

One of the near certainties in science fiction movies and TV shows that have aliens in them, is that the aliens almost always speak English. The reason for that is that it's simpler that way. There is only so much time to tell a story in a movie. An episode in a TV series is …

I know it's been over a month since the conference, but I did promise a second post, and there was one session I wanted to mention. This was the session I was asked to chair. It was part of the "Business and Other Track" and this particular session had a good representation of both. Among …

It's been nearly two weeks since the 2015 ITA conference and I finally have some time to sit and write about it. The annual conference is always a good time to catch up with colleagues, mingle, meet new people. I arrived Monday afternoon. I did not attend any of the workshops, so I settled in, …

It's not that simple. First, the book was published in 1997, and it's been a few years since I read it. Being a Hofstadter book it's worth returning to occasionally. It's not that simple also because when Hofstadter writes about something he rarely writes about just that one thing. I bought the book because I …